On Monday, 9 June 2014 at 14:47:45 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 10:39:39 -0400, Chris <wend...@tcd.ie>
wrote:
Atm, I have
auto parts = appender!(string[]);
w.splitter('-').filter!(a => !a.empty).copy(parts);
Which looks more elegant and gives me what I want. IMO, the
module that handles the splitting of hyphenated words should
be able to deal with cases like "blah-" without the input
being prepared in a certain way.
It's not mishandled. It's handled exactly as I would have
expected. If "blah-" and "blah" result in the same thing, then
how do you know the difference?
Stripping any possible leading or trailing hyphens is much more
efficient than checking every single word to see if it's empty.
However, if you have an instance of "--", your solution will
remove the extra empty string, whereas mine does not. Not sure
if that's important.
-Steve
It is important. "blah--" should come out as "blah". The logic is
along the following lines:
if (canFind(w, "-")) {
auto parts = appender!(string[]);
w.splitter('-').filter!(a => !a.empty).copy(parts);
if (parts.data.length == 1) {
// false alarm. Trailing hyphen
}
}
The more common case is that it's not a trailing hyphen.
std.string.strip() only works for whitespaces. Would be nice to
have something like that for random characters. strip(s, '-') or
strip(s, ['-', '+', '@'])
